Trees for Food, Fuel and Fodder
“Small-holder and community forestry should be included in the carbon trading system.”
Geneva, January 2011—The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), which has planted over 100 million trees in Asia and Africa, has made a commitment to plant over 10 million more trees.
The commitment by the Geneva-based development organization coincides with the world-wide launch of the International Year of Forests.
“By planting trees, we have supported biodiversity, restored degraded forests, revived rural communities and provided carbon sequestration to combat climate change,” said David Boyer, Director of the Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Fund for the Environment. “But the best way to increase the number of trees on the planet is to provide incentives for their propagation and preservation.”
“In areas where there is intense competition for firewood, for example, sustainable tree planting can be seen as a way of providing jobs and building assets, not just as a good thing to do. We see sustainable tree planting having a significant impact on both poverty alleviation and the environment.”
via http://www.akdn.org/Content/1045/Trees-for-Food-Fuel-and-Fodder
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